Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c33e14def6acf584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 17:13:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4c52a875c71b38781c4e447a2757042e SHA-1: 57e580c7f182ffa5c4ddfb81e64483ba2addb9e0 SHA-256: c33e14def6acf5847ba494e2e3dc44543438af4e9c8776e098f7471ac003bace
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms and compromised WordPress uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+deathly+hallows+part+2+full+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://hotelite.in/userfiles/file/54850882541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366d3e5f33f---81086256249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmke.cz/pictures/files/55339698924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factblogs.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/boreweruzori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/tekaxifixato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontotecnicacoop.it/userfiles/file/59092924651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/zozimuxetujefegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/malotubitotagebutanatam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/87485367775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarycochinharbour.org/ci/userfiles/files/movowasaboradasomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wumewuxono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsddesign.com/filespath/files/20210907022004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gubuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/vakobuwezelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korankertas.com/contents/files/wavoferanusinugonega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/bukoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinaboys.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/12935998711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328a97ee5fd---78526785223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/gejuluwusodadipepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbf98dca55---kivedalifadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidymoney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69763119622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiga.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejogubejiruririz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/55240578885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomunojokisotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e58d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58D 17920 bytes
SHA-256: 1b76215e9c89f73e8540a45ff5557913c0a6b7591cb3d8cc2fc7d5336d3cd638
font_01_sfnt_off000113e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BFE 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 9d89db5f97905aeb52a34a0b543e3ba49e5e680cc32afd3850c4ead9a54bb35a